| 单词 |
geometrician |
| 释义 |
geometrician|dʒiːˌɒmɪˈtrɪʃən|
Also 5 gemitrician, 6 gemetricion.
[f. L. geōmetric-us + -ian.]
1. One who studies geometry. Now rare.
1483[see geometer 1]. 1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. i. (1870) 121 Certayne great stones..lyeng and hangyng, that no Gemetricion can set them as they do hange. 1594Blundevil Exerc. ii. (ed. 7) 102 Our modern Geometricians have of late invented two other right lines belonging to a Circle, called lines Tangent, and lines Secant. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 228 Says Plato, God acts the part of Geometrician, does all things exactly and regularly. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 158 While Maclaurin pursued this new career, a geometrician no less famous distinguished himself in the sure..track of antiquity. a1862Buckle Civiliz. (1869) III. v. 306 The object of the geometrician is to generalize the laws of space.
†2. One who measures the earth or land; a land-surveyor. Obs.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. clxxxi. 1124 As if he [God] had beene some Geometrician, that should haue butteled and bounded the whole world. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 517 The Art of measuring Grounds doth more properly belong vnto the Geometrician. 1676W. Hubbard Happiness of People 37 The Sovereign power is not tyed to the judgement of Physitians in the case of a wound, nor of a Geometrician in the measuring of Land. |
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